Current Psychology articles from December 22 1998

Current Psychology archives from December 22 1998

The Need for an Evolving Concept of Validity in Industrial and Personnel Psychology: Psychometric, Legal, and Emerging Issues.
December 22, 1998... The Trinitarian view of validity (namely content, criterion-related, and construct) has dominated psychology for almost a half century. In industrial and personnel psychology especially, content and criterion-related (in particular) forms of...

Multilevel Modeling in Industrial and Personnel Psychology.
December 22, 1998... Many of the topics of interest in the social and behavior sciences are often hierarchical or multilevel in nature. These multiple levels (e.g., individual versus group) create problems for researchers related to the choice of measurement and...

The Relationship between Variance Components and Mean Difference Effect Size.
December 22, 1998... Variance components in the context of Generalizability Theory are useful indices for attributing the amount of variance to a particular facet or object of measurement. The mean difference effect size (MDES) has proven to be a useful tool both...

The Defense Mechanisms Inventory: Theoretical and Psychometric Implications.
December 22, 1998... Defense mechanisms and object relations have been increasingly featured in the recent literature on personality and interpersonal behavior. The Defense Mechanisms Inventory (DMI) has become popular as a reference tool in many of these studies....

Dilution in Legal Decision Making: Effect of Non-Diagnostic Information in Relation to Amount of Diagnostic Evidence.
December 22, 1998... Judgments about others are often based on information that varies in terms of its diagnosticity or usefulness in predicting a certain outcome. Previous studies have demonstrated a "dilution effect" in which the addition of nondiagnostic or...

Gender Differences in Causal Attributions by College Students of Performance on Course Examinations.
December 22, 1998... Gender differences in causal attributions and emotions for imagined success and failure on examinations were investigated. Males made stronger ability attributions for success than females, whereas females emphasized the importance of studying...